October 29
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1682 - The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania.1764 - The Hartford Courant (then known as The Connecticut Courant), the oldest continuously published newspaper in America, was first published. Not only is The Hartford Courant “older than the nation,” it is: (1)The newspaper in which George Washington placed an ad to lease part of his Mount Vernon land; (2)Where Noah Webster’s Blue-Backed Speller was first published; (3)The paper Thomas Jefferson sued for libel (he lost); and (4)The paper Mark Twain tried to buy stock in (his offer was turned down).
1796 - The first American ship to sail the coast of California (at Monterey) was the Otter, under the command of Captain Ebenezer Dorr. The crew of the ship collected hundreds of sea otter pelts. Other American ships followed the lead of the Otter. They defied Spanish prohibitions and engaged in clandestine trade with local otter hunters. By 1821, the sea otter had been nearly exterminated along the coast of California.
1814 - The first steam-powered warship, Demologos, was launched in New York harbor. Designed and constructed by Robert Fulton, the ship was later officially christened Fulton the First.
1929 - Over 16 million shares were traded in panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange and thousands of investors were wiped out on this day. Prices plummeted, millions lost billions, and the buying boom was over. The market crashed. Astrologer Evangeline Adams had seen into the future and predicted the crash - along with other events that actually occurred, like Lindbergh’s flight - but didn’t listen to her own predictions. She lost $100,000. The Great Depression was depressing, indeed!
1930 - The tune, It Must Be True, was recorded on Victor by Bing Crosby, who sang with Gus Arnheim and his orchestra.
1934 - The Mary Worth comic strip probably made its debut on this day. We say probably because there is disagreement among the experts. Most reference works on comic strips say Mary Worth is a continuation of Martha Orr’s Apple Mary, which Publishers Syndicate launched on this day. King Features Syndicate, which currently distributes the strip, says the two are separate, and that Mary Worth’s Family, as Mary Worth was called at the time, was started in 1938 as a replacement for -- not the continuation of -- the earlier strip, which folded.
1940 - U.S. held its first peacetime military draft. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number from a bowl and handed it to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be read. The first number was 158. 6,175 men across the nation held that number. Those who were deemed qualified for service were then required to report for duty.
1941 - Let’s Face It! opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre. The Cole Porter musical starred Danny Kaye, Eve Arden, Vivian Vance and Nanette Fabray and was a big success, drawing crowds to 547 performances, closing Mar 20, 1943. A film version of the show was released in 1943.
1942 - The Alaska Highway was opened for traffic. The bombing of Pearl Harbor in Dec 1941 spurred construction of the highway. Alaska was considered vulnerable to a Japanese invasion, and the highway was deemed a military necessity. Construction had begun in March 1942.
1945 - The first commercially-made ballpoint pens went on sale -- at Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The pens sold for $12.50 and racked up a tidy profit of $500,000 in the first month!
1948 - Sandy Saddler surprised the boxing world by knocking out Willie Pep in the fourth round to win the world featherweight boxing title in New York City.
1952 - French forces launched Operation Lorraine against Viet Minh supply bases in Indochina.
1953 - A British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-6 with eleven passengers and a crew of eight crashed into Kings Mountain, ten miles west of Redwood City, CA. All on board the plane were killed.
1956 - John Cameron Swayze and The Camel News Caravan were replaced by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC-TV. The Huntley-Brinkley Report clicked so well that the respected newsmen reported nightly until July of 1970. “Good night Chet. Good night David. And good night from NBC News.”
1956 - Israel launched an invasion of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Israeli paratroopers opened the Straits of Tiran.
1958 - Russian poet Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was forced to decline the honor because of protests in his home country.
1960 - Cassius Clay won his first pro bout -- over Tunney Hunsaker -- in six rounds in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Hunsaker was never heard from again, but we heard a great deal from Clay, including, “I am the greatest!”
1961 - The top, pop song on the charts belonged to Dion (DiMucci). Runaround Sue was in its second week at the tiptop of the top-tune tabulation (it was in the top 40 for three months).
1963 - Veteran actor Adolphe Menjou died at the age of 73.
1964 - The largest star sapphire in the world, the Star of India, was stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Fortunately, the gem was later found, undamaged.
1966 - The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an end to all school segregation “at once.”
1970 - Neil Diamond received a nice package: a gold record for the hit, Cracklin’ Rosie.
1973 - O.J. Simpson set two NFL records this day. The Buffalo Bills’ star running back ran 39 times for 157 yards -- and he rushed for a total of over 1,000 yards in only seven games.
1981 - Loretta Lynn received a gold record for her album, Greatest Hits, Vol. 2.
1983 - Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charting album of all time when it logged its 491st week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. The previous champ had been Johnny’s Greatest Hits, by Johnny Mathis (490 weeks: April 1958-July 1968). Dark Side of the Moon stayed on the chart for 724 consecutive weeks (740 weeks altogether) and didn’t drop off until July 13, 1988. Michael Jackson’s Thriller sold the most copies ever -- 40 million -- but it spent ‘only’ 122 weeks on the album chart.
1984 - Golfing great Tom Watson won his sixth PGA Player of the Year title; the most won by any golfer since the award was first given in 1948. Jack Nicklaus had accumulated five of those titles.
1987 - Jazz great Woody Herman died in Los Angeles at age 74. The government had just seized his home for back taxes. (His band manager, Abe Turchen, had not paid taxes on musician salaries for three years.)
1990 - The Byrds, LaVern Baker, John Lee Hooker, The Impressions, Wilson Pickett, Jimmy Reed and Ike & Tina Turner were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1991 - The American space probe Galileo captured the first close-up photographs of an asteroid in space.
1994 - Francisco Martin Duran of Colorado Springs, Colorado fired more than two dozen shots from a semiautomatic rifle at the White House while standing on Pennsylvania Avenue. Duran was convicted of trying to assassinate President Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
1995 - Writer Terry Southern (Candy, The Magic Christian), died of respiratory failure in New York City. He was 71 years old. Southern wrote the screenplays for Dr. Strangelove (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1966), Casino Royale (1967), and Easy Rider (1969), among others.
1997 - From Brazil it was reported that at least 10% of the 2 million square-mile Amazon basin had been destroyed by fire.
1998 - Hurricane Mitch (Oct 22-Nov 4, 1998), one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever, made landfall, slamming into Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and other Central American countries. The real story was not the wind but the rain. Slow movement of the storm caused heavy rain, resulting in widespread flooding and mudslides. Over 10,000 people were killed, another 10,000 were missing, and some two million people were affected in some way by the storm.
1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off, returning 77-year-old U.S. Senator John Glenn to space some 36 years after he became the first American in orbit. Glenn was part of a crew of seven astronauts shepherding scientific payloads on the shuttle mission.
1998 - 63 people were killed in a fire during a disco party at a dance hall in Goteborg, Sweden.
1999 - U.S. motion pictures opening this day: Being John Malkovich, with John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean -- and John Malkovich; House on Haunted Hill, starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen Taye Diggs, Bridgette Wilson and Peter Gallagher; Music of the Heart, with Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett and Gloria Estefan; and the animated Princess Mononoke, featuring Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi and others.
1999 - 63,000 people attended a memorial service in Orlando, Florida, for golfer Payne Stewart, who was killed along with five other people in the crash of their Learjet.
2000 - The damaged destroyer, USS Cole, departed Aden, Yemen. The Cole was towed to a Norwegian heavy-lift ship and taken home to repair the gaping hole in its side. 17 sailors were killed in a suicide bombing attack on Oct 12, 2000.
2002 - The federal government filed charges against Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad under a 1946 extortion law, accusing him of a murderous plot to extort $10 million.
2002 - In San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the U.S. government could not punish California doctors for recommending marijuana use to their patients.
2003 - A strong geomagnetic storm hit Earth, knocking out some airline communications but causing no major problems.
2003 - Search crews blasted through solid rock in southern Russia to rescue 11 of 13 coal miners six days after they were trapped in a deep shaft.
2004 - These films were new in the U.S.: Birth, starring Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Arliss Howard, Peter Stormare and Anne Heche; Ray, with Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Aunjanue Ellis, Harry Lennix, Terrence Dashon Howard, Larenz Tate and Sharon Warren; and Saw, starring Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer, Monica Potter, Shawnee Smith and Leigh Whannell.
2004 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (75), suffering from a serious, but undisclosed illness, was flown to France and rushed to a military hospital for treatment.
2005 - 59 people were killed and some 200 others were and injured when a series of blasts were set off in New Delhi, Capital city of India. A Pakistan-based terrorist group claimed responsibility.
2006 - China rocketed a domestically produced communications satellite into orbit to provide wider and more advanced TV services across the country.
2007 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced plans to build several nuclear power plants. Egypt joined several other Arab countries that were beginning to use atomic energy.
2008 - The Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series [vs. the Tampa Bay Rays] with the conclusion of Game 5, which had been stopped by rain two days earlier.
2009 - A U.S. district judge in San Jose, CA awarded Facebook $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, known as the ‘Spam King’.
2010 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Inspector Bellamy, with Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, Marie Bunel and Vahina Giocante; Monsters, starring Whitney Able and Scoot McNairy; Saw 3D, with Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Gina Holden, Betsy Russell and Tanedra Howard; Welcome to the Rileys, starring Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo, Lance E. Nichols and David Jensen; and Wild Target, with Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett and Eileen Atkins.
2010 - Packages discovered in Dubai and England in air cargo shipments to the U.S. contained explosive materials and appeared headed for Jewish places of worship in Chicago. President Obama, confirming the “credible terrorist threat,” spoke shortly after military jets had escorted a passenger jet from the United Arab Emirates to New York’s JFK airport as a precautionary measure because it was carrying a package from Yemen.
2010 - The death toll from the cholera epidemic in Haiti rose to 330, as medical teams desperately sought to contain the outbreak. This, some nine months after a devastating earthquake had wreaked havoc throughout the country.
2011 - Indian-ruled Kashmir approved amendments to the Public Safety Act (PSA), correcting the law that allowed detention of people without trial for two years and the arrest of youths as young as 16.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy grounded thousands of flights in the U.S. northeast and public transportation in New York City was shut down. The stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years as Sandy made landfall in New Jersey with 80 mph sustained winds. The Hurricane Center later attributed 72 U.S. deaths to the storm with estimated damages pegged at some $50 billion.
2013 - Conrad Murray, the former doctor convicted of killing singer Michael Jackson with an overdose of a powerful anesthetic, was released from prison in Los Angeles. He served half of his maximum sentence. Murray, 60, had been sentenced to serve four years behind bars, but a change in California law allowed his jail term to be significantly reduced.
2014 - In World Series Game 7, the San Francisco Giants beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2 in Kansas City. It was the Giants’ third World Series championship in five years.
2015 - German police announced raids of the homes of 13 people as part of an international operation to arrest criminals who were using DroidJack. The mobile phone malware allowed the cybercriminals to assume control of Android smartphones without the owners being aware.
2016 - Thousands of people took to the streets of Seoul, South Korea calling for increasingly unpopular President Park Geun-hye to step down. This, because of allegations that she let an old friend, the daughter of a religious cult leader, interfere in important state affairs. (In December Park was impeached by the National Assembly. Her presidential powers and duties were suspended with the ratification of the impeachment. Then-Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn assumed those powers and duties as Acting President. The impeachment was upheld by the Constitutional Court on March 10, 2017, discontinuing her presidency and forcing her out of office.)
2016 - The U.S. State Department ordered family members of employees posted to the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey to leave because extremist groups were continuing aggressive efforts to attack U.S. citizens.
2017 - Roughly 70 percent of Puerto Rico remained without power more than a month after Hurricane Maria. Puerto Rico’s governor demanded that the board of the island’s power company cancel a $300-million contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings. The move came amid increased scrutiny of the Montana company’s role in hurricane recovery efforts. The governor’s demand was heard and the power company scrapped the deal with Whitefish the next morning.
2018 - All you legislators out there, take notice: Central African Republic lawmaker Alfred Yekatom fired a gun into the air in the parliament after an altercation with a colleague. Police arrested Yekatom and locked him up.
2018 - Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said South Africa’s eastern Mpumalanga province had the most polluting cluster of coal-fired power stations in the world producing record levels of nitrogen dioxide.
2019 - Indian air carrier IndiGo placed an order for 300 Airbus A320neo-family jets worth at least $33 billion. The order was the biggest ever for Airbus from a single carrier. IndiGo was among the fastest growing carriers in the world at the time.
2019 - Amazon.com said it was making its two-hour grocery delivery service free for Prime members in the U.S. and was integrating all orders for groceries into one portal.
2020 - 60 people were indicted across the U.S. in a telemarketing scheme. Prosecutors said people were tricked into signing up for expensive magazine subscriptions they could not afford, did not want -- and often did not receive. More than 150,000 people were cheated out of more than $300 million.
2020 - Hurricane Zeta sped across the southeastern U.S., leaving a trail of damage -- and more than 2.5 million homes and businesses without power in Atlanta and beyond. The storm pounded New Orleans with winds and water that splintered homes. Zeta left six people dead. A man was electrocuted in New Orleans, and four people died in Alabama and Georgia when trees fell on homes. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a man drowned when he was trapped in rising seawater.
2020 - Russian strongman Vladimir Putin said that Russia was facing challenges scaling up production of its main COVID-19 vaccine due to problems with equipment availability. But he said he hoped to start mass vaccinations by the end of the year.
2020 - The U.S. recorded more than 90,000 new coronavirus cases -- a daily high. The infection rate was more than one new case every second.
2021 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Last Night in Soho, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Thomasin McKenzie and Diana Rigg; A Mouthful of Air, with Amanda Seyfried, Britt Robertson and Paul Giamatti; the animated My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission, featuring characters voiced by Robbie Daymond, Tetsu Inada, Yûki Kaji and Ryan Colt Levy; Heart of Champions, starring Michael Shannon, Alexander Ludwig and Charles Melton; and The Souvenir Part II, with Tilda Swinton, Honor Swinton Byrne and James Spencer Ashworth.
2021 - Britain’s Prince Andrew rejected Virginia Giuffre’s accusations that he sexually abused her some two decades earlier -- when she was 17 -- and urged a U.S. judge to dismiss her civil lawsuit.
2021 - Merriam-Webster added 455 new words to its venerable dictionary, including a number of abbreviations and slang terms that had become ubiquitous on social media. The dictionary company said the quick and informal nature of messaging, texting, and tweeting, which only increased during the pandemic, had “contributed to a vocabulary newly rich in efficient and abbreviated expression.” Among them: “TBH”, an abbreviation for “to be honest” and “FTW,” an abbreviation for “for the win.” Merriam-Webster explained that FTW is used “especially to express approval or support. In social media, FTW is often used to acknowledge a clever or funny response to a question or meme.” And it says “amirite” is a quick way to write “am I right,” as in, “English spelling is consistently inconsistent, amirite?”
2022 - 159 people were killed, and 196 others suffered grave injuries following a human crush incident at a Halloween festival in Seoul, South Korea. The crush occurred in the city’s Itaewon District, one of the popular hubs of Seoul’s nightlife. The human pileup happened when throngs of people began filing into a narrow alley near one of the district’s most popular hotels. People were trampled and suffocated as they struggled to free themselves from the crowd.
2022 - President Biden harshly criticized Russia after it exited a United Nations-backed deal that would have allowed Ukrainian grain exports to be funneled through ports of the Black Sea. Ukrainian and international officials admonished the move as one that could cause additional problems to arise with the global food supply chain. Biden said Russia’s decision was “purely outrageous. It’s going to increase starvation.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were 170 ships stranded in the Black Sea that were unable to transport food.
2023 - Matthew Perry’s family shared a statement saying that they were “heartbroken by the tragic loss of our beloved son and brother.” Perry, the actor who starred as Chandler Bing on “Friends,” had died the previous day at his Los Angeles home following an apparent drowning accident. He was 54. A later autopsy showed Perry died from the acute effects of the anesthetic ketamine. He had previously released a memoir about his recovery from addiction and his dedication to helping others titled, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir.”
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Birthdays on This Day October 29
1740 - James Boswell
author: biographer: Life of Samuel Johnson; died May 19, 17951815 - Daniel Decatur Emmett
composer: Dixie [Dixie’s Land]; died June 28, 19041891 - Fanny Brice (Borach)
actress: Ziegfeld Follies; comedienne: Baby Snooks; subject of film: Funny Girl; died May 29, 19511899 - Akim Tamiroff
actor: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Anastasia, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Hotel Paradiso, Lord Jim, The Story of Louis Pasteur; died Sep 17, 19721907 - (Robert) Douglass Montgomery
actor: Little Women, Harmony Lane; died July 23, 19661910 - Lew Parker
actor: Country Music Holiday, Are You With It?, The Kid, That Girl, Your Surprise Store, F Troop; died Oct 27, 19721921 - Ed Kemmer
radio actor: Space Patrol [1952-1955]; actor: Space Patrol [Commander Buzz Corry], Kennedy, Mara of the Wilderness, Earth vs the Spider, Too Much, Too Soon, Hong Kong Confidential, Calypso Joe; died Nov 9, 20041921 - Bill Mauldin
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist: [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie; died Jan 22, 20031922 - Neal Hefti
composer: TV’s Batman theme, The Odd Couple theme; score: Sex and the Single Girl; Neal Hefti and His Orchestra: The Kate Smith Show; died Oct 11, 20081925 - Zoot (John Haley) Sims
musician: tenor/alto sax: groups: Benny Goodman Band, Woody Herman Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Birdland All-Stars, Jazz at Carnegie Hall; died Mar 23, 19851926 - Jon Vickers
singer: opera tenor; died Jul 10, 20151932 - Dick Garmaker
basketball: Univ. of Minnesota; NBA: Minneapolis Lakers; died Jun 13, 20201937 - Sonny Osborne
musician: 5-string banjo, singer: baritone: group: Osborne Brothers: Up this Hill and Down, Rocky Top, Tennessee Hound Dog, Georgia Pinewoods; died Oct 24, 20211938 - Ralph Bakshi
writer, director, animator: Hey Good Lookin’, Heavy Traffic, Fritz the Cat, Wizards, Streetfight; director, animator: The Lord of the Rings; writer, director: Fire and Ice; director: Cool World1938 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
first woman to lead an African country [Liberia, 2006- ]; won 2011 Nobel Peace Prize [jointly with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakel Karman of Yemen]1939 - Pete (Peter Gerard) Richert
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers, Washington Senators [all-star: 1965, 1966], Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1969, 1970, 1971], Philadelphia Phillies, SL Cardinals1941 - Andy Russell
football: Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker: Super Bowl IX, X1944 - Jim Bibby
baseball [pitcher]: St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates; died Feb 16, 20101944 - Denny Laine (Brian Hines)
musician: guitar, singer: groups: The Moody Blues: Go Now; Wings: My Love, Live & Let Die, Helen Wheels, Jet, Band on the Run1945 - Melba Moore
singer: You Stepped into My Life; actress: The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show1946 - Peter Green
musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Man of the World; solo: LP: The End of the Game1947 - Richard Dreyfuss
Academy Award-winning actor: The Goodbye Girl [1977]; Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge, In Mama’s House, Karen, The Education of Max Bickford; TV narrator: American Chronicles1948 - Kate Jackson
actress: Charlie’s Angels, The Rookies, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Baby Boom, Killer Bees, Satan’s School for Girls, Loverboy1950 - Ed Dyck
hockey: NHL: Vancouver Canucks1953 - Denis Potvin
hockey: NHL: NY Islanders: shares record for most goals scored by a defenseman in a playoff game [3]: Islanders vs. Edmonton Oilers [4/17/1981]1955 - Kevin Dubrow
singer: group: Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize, Bang Your Head [Metal Health], Skweeze Me Pleeze Me; died Nov 25, 20071957 - Dan Castellaneta
voice actor: The Simpsons: Homer Simpson, Abraham ‘Grampa’ Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman1959 - Jesse Barfield
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays [all-star: 1986/Gold Glove: 1986, 1987], NY Yankees1960 - Michael Carter
football: San Francisco 49ers tackle: Super Bowl XIX, XXIII, XXIV1961 - Randy Jackson
singer: group: The Jackson Five: I’ll be There; brother of Michael, La Toya, Janet, Jermaine, Tito, etc.1967 - Joely Fisher
actress: I’ll Do Anything, The Mask, In the Loop, Inspector Gadget, Nostradamus, Normal, Ohio, Danny1967 - Paris
rapper: Break the Grip of Shame, Devil Made Me Do It, Warning, Blast First, Root of Evil, Same Ol’ Same Ol’, Ave Bushani, Ain’t No Love, Agents of Repression1967 - Rufus Sewell
actor: The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, The Illusionist, Daniel and Laurence, The Holiday, Paris, je t’aime, The Legend of Zorro, Extreme Ops, A Knight’s Tale, Bless the Child, At Sachem Farm, Zen, The Man in the High Castle1969 - Serenity
actress [1992-2003]: X-rated films: Stacked with Honors, Lip Service, Orgazmo, Hillbilly Honeys, Georgia Peaches, Dirty Bob’s Xcellent Adventures 36, Wicked Covergirls, The Other Side of Serenity, Whack Attack 51971 - Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz)
actress: Little Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas, Stranger Things1972 - Tracee Ellis Ross
actress: Black-ish, Girlfriends, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Daddy’s Little Girls, Reed Between the Lines, Labor Pains; more1972 - Gabrielle Union
actress: Bring It On, Bad Boys II, City of Angels, Deliver Us from Eva, Think Like a Man, FlashForward, Ugly Betty, Night Stalker1973 - Robert Pirès
footballer [winger]: France national team [1996–2004]: 1998 FIFA World Cup champs1976 - Milena Govich
actress: Law and Order, Conviction, Finding Carter, Sordid Things, A Novel Romance1977 - Brendan Fehr
actor: CSI: Miami, Roswell, X-Men: First Class, The Other Side of the Tracks, The Fifth Patient, Biker Boyz, Final Destination, Disturbing Behavior1977 - Barrett Green
football: West Virginia Univ; NFL: Detroit Lions, New York Giants1979 - Teddy Sears
actor: One Life to Live, Raising the Bar, In Between, The Legacy of Walter Frumm, Os Desafinados, To End All Wars, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Whoopi1980 - Miguel Cotto
pro boxer: won world titles in four different weight classes: Light welterweight, Welterweight, Light middleweight, Middleweight1980 - Ben Foster
actor: Liberty Heights, 3:10 to Yuma, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Punisher, Phone Booth, Big Trouble, Get Over It, Bang Bang, You’re Dead, Hostage, Flash Forward, Six Feet Under, The Messenger, Contraband, Lone Survivor, Warcraft1981 - Amanda Beard
Olympic swim champ [U.S.A.]: seven-time Olympic medalist, swimming in three Olympic Games [1996, 2000, 2004]; model: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition [2006], Playboy [2007]; more1984 - Eric Staal
hockey [center]: NHL: Carolina Hurricanes [2003- ]: 2006 Stanley Cup champs; Staal became a member of the Triple Gold Club after an Olympic gold medal, a World Championship [2007] and the Stanley Cup1987 - Jessica Dubé
Canadian pairs figure skating champ [w/partner Bryce Davison]: three-time [2007, 2009, 2010] Canadian national champion1990 - Carlson Young
actress: As the Bell Rings, Key & Peele, The Perfect Student, Scream1992 - Evan Fournier
French basketball pro: JSF Nanterre [2009–2010]; Poitiers Basket 86 [2010–2012]; NBA: Denver Nuggets [2012–2014] Orlando Magic [2014–2021] Boston Celtics [2021] New York Knicks [2021- ]1993 - India Eisley
actress: The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Headspace, Underworld: Awakening, Maleficent
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Hit Music on This Day October 29
1948You Call Everybody Darlin’ (facts) - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
A Tree in the Meadow (facts) - Margaret Whiting
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